Yahoo downgrades antispam measure after causing BT email chaos

Courtesy guardian.co.uk Technology  Wed, 05/14/2008 - 06:03

A Yahoo security upgrade that caused chaos for thousands of BT customers who use their own domain name to send email has been temporarily removed after protests from users.

The problem arose when Yahoo decided as an anti-spamming measure to stop any emails going through the servers, which it runs for its partner BT, that did not have a matching BT/Yahoo address in the From: field.

People who tried to send using their own domain names found the email...


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